Patient safety problems from healthcare information technology in medical imaging

Health information technology (HIT) systems have been deployed extensively by healthcare organizations and promoted as a panacea to many of the challenges faced by medical imaging departments, particularly with respect to workflow, efficiency and diagnostic accuracy. This report describes how inadeq...

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Veröffentlicht in:BJR case reports 2016-01, Vol.2 (2), p.20150107
Hauptverfasser: Schultz, Timothy J, Hannaford, Natalie, Mandel, Catherine
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Health information technology (HIT) systems have been deployed extensively by healthcare organizations and promoted as a panacea to many of the challenges faced by medical imaging departments, particularly with respect to workflow, efficiency and diagnostic accuracy. This report describes how inadequate planning, integration, training and testing of HIT can impact on patient safety and result in patient harm.
ISSN:2055-7159
2055-7159
DOI:10.1259/bjrcr.20150107